Self-Reliance Quotes
109 quotes by 72 authors
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her,…
— Anne Bronte
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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
— Les Brown
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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and…
— Carrie Brownstein
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There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love…
— Mariah Carey
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Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance
— Lisa Murkowski
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is…
— John Ruskin
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance
— Daniel De Leon
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Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's…
— Dee Dee Myers
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People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.
— Leon Brown
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Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.
— Bob McDonnell
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
— Dalai Lama
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Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want…
— Rush Limbaugh
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what…
— Bill O'Reilly
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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline,…
— Steven Pressfield
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
— George Santayana
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I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
— Martha Stewart
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Though lovers be lost love shall not.
— Dylan Thomas
Who Wrote These Self-Reliance Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 109 Self-Reliance Quotes, led by these top contributors: